The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-19
hotel was filed with smoke and danes.

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Then terrible scenes began.
The second and third alarms brought
the entire Are department 10 the scene
but it was impossible TO save any por-
ton OF the structure. The FIRE had
reached the roof In less than five
minutes from the time IL was discov.
cred. II soon reached and Quilted St.
James Hall, occupied as Bunnell's
Museum, and Tsoli Hall, adjoin-
ing and fronting on Washington
street. The Gre, which was under
control by 8 O'Clock, was confined to
the Richmond Hotel ard museum
property, tsgether with the saloon OF
james Cfsig1ton and tina cigar store OF
J.'C. Palecio on the Main street side.
The Vain street stores OF the Rich.
mund Hstei were occupied by Ulbhch
& Kingsley. book sellers ard station
ers; Peter Paul 4 Bros, In the same
line Of businefs, and Fuller & Town
send, proprlstors OF the Boston Cloth
ing Store. The stock In these stores
was totally destroyed, entailing heavy
! losses. Az usual the fremen were
bsmpsred terribly by the mass Of tsle-
graph wires and cables etrung In front
Il the huildlng on Main street. Some
| eye witnesses think the loss OF lie was
largely due to the delay caused by the
wires. Hugo v. Altschul, Of Now
York, assisted q number OF women
from the burning building. He then
made his own
KsoArK nv LEAPISG FROM ONE BUILDING
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until he reached the corner OF W lth-
ington aud North Division streets, and
thus gained the street. Clinton Bid
well, OF Pittsburg, Is lying on an in-
provGed cot at d.. Hayd's Office on
Niagara street.
"Lpok at my hands, heshrieked; 81
tied the sheets tcg sther aud came
down by them When l was mostly
Own a man nhot past me who had
jumped. He came near striking me.
My God. The people lay on the roof
all abb vi me. They were Rroaning and
dying. H. was awful. they died, 1
know they did. Tho skin 10 all of
me. have not q friend with me, and
none who know me, but in Pittsburg.
mads up my mind / would stick to
the rope. and l did"
He turaed en- his cot and yelled
with pain. DR.. Hayd had given him
morphine but Il had no effect. VIM,
] Mann, one Of the pToprietor5 OF
the house, and h 9 wife, had q thrill
ing experience In getting out. Mrs.
Mann was terribly burned about the
head, arms and legs. Their little
daughter Jennie was also badly
burned. Five girls who roomed on
the 9Th Aoor made rope out OF the
bed clothes and hung 1t out Of the
window, but none Of them seemed to
have the courage to start. AT last one
Of the Ave took hold and swung down
10 q window ledge from which she
was rescued. Three others came
down In the same manner, and then
the filth girl started down. She had
gone but q little distance when the
rops parted and down she went four
ntorits. Strange to say she was not
killed.
HRR LEGS WERE TARMBLy CUT AND
BRUISED,
her back badly injured and her face
and arms were in fightful condition
from burns She lay moaning upon q
lounge at the Spencer House, begging
to be sent home. Her name Is said to
be Mary 0ennell. Ia front Of Dlngen
Bros. store lay dead man covered by
q mattress. He had black hair and O
full face, which was covered with
blood and could not be recognised. At
first IL was thought he was Superin-
tendent Morford, OF the Michigan
Central railroad, but Moriord was af-
terwsrd found. Mark Osborne, day
clerk and assistant manager Of the
hotek Ia missing. He slept on the
south side. lis believed he persisted.
H. M Johnson, the celebrated Splinter,
OF Pittsburg, says: arrived Ia Bufa.
10 Yesterday and was assigned TO room
l26 at the Richmond Hotel. About
$3.50 o'clock this morning the bell boy
pounded upon my door. awoke aud
found my room full OF smoke. l
drees, sd quickly and rushed out into
the hallway, and oh, my God, what q
sight. Men, women and children
acted perfectly wild and did not know
which way to 90. Women walled
like msniars aud rushed peil NELL for
the stairway and In every direction.
The smoke was almost sutiocating. l
cannot remember anything about how
/ got out. think l came down the
stairway.
THE FOLLOWING rs A LIST OF THE IN
JURRn:
At Emergency Hospitsl-Ed ward
Whesla 4, of 258 Liberty street, New
burg, burned about the hands and
feet; William j. Makay, Of Niagara
Falls, feet, back and arms burned ;
Perry Davis, Of New York, hands and
feet injured; Ii. b. Smith, OF SYRIA
cuse, face, hands and feet burned.
At the Sistera' Hospital, all being
seriously injured-Mary Nolan, badly
burned about the body, may not re-
coveN; Maggie Maubrach, seriously
burned about the body, face and
hands: q man named Nichols, very
seriously injured; Fannie Harvey,
seriously burned. -...
At the Fitch Hospital Frederick
X. Moore, of Cleveland, o., severely
injured about the face, hands and
feet; William A. Haven, Of Helena,
Mont, burned about the hands, feet
and face and suffering from shook-he
is chief engineer Of the Northern Pa
ci6c railroad; Edwin A. Finch, eof
s. rantou, Pa, suffers from serious
burns about the face, hands and feet,
in q dangerous condition; Henry
Brumssy, OF New York, suffers from
burns ali over the body; O. NJ. Du-
bois, Of Syracuse, is severely burned
all over the body-he is general agent
Of the Commercial Insurance Com
pany; Jacob Kohp, Of New York,
badly Injured by jumping from the
fourth a)or-ho broke his back and
one leg aud was also burned about
the head. aims and body; May Witt,
Of this city, burned about the face and
arms.
At the General Hospital-Matthew
Shannon, slightly injured; Clinton
Bidwell, burned in face; Nellie
WEIGH, face and hands burned;